{"id":179513,"date":"2025-09-18T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike"},"modified":"2025-09-18T21:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:52:36","slug":"tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike","title":{"rendered":"Tambuwal, Atiku betrayers \u2013 Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has criticised former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television on Thursday, Wike said both Tambuwal and Atiku had been \u201cconsistently inconsistent\u201d and \u201cbetrayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal had earlier remarked that Wike was his friend but that he did not trust him with leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never come out on national television to talk about Aminu Tambuwal, but this is an opportunity to talk about him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you talk about leadership and friendship, you can\u2019t talk about leadership and you don\u2019t talk about the person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTambuwal and Atiku. These are people who have been consistently inconsistent, betrayers. Birds of the same feather flock together. There\u2019s no way Tambuwal would go without Atiku, knowing full well their antecedents,\u201d Wike said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has criticised former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. Featuring on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television on Thursday, Wike said both Tambuwal and Atiku had been \u201cconsistently inconsistent\u201d and \u201cbetrayers.\u201d Tambuwal had earlier remarked that Wike was his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[316,254,614,454],"class_list":["post-179513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-atiku","tag-nigeria","tag-tambuwal","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tambuwal, Atiku betrayers \u2013 Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has criticised former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, and fo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tambuwal, Atiku betrayers \u2013 Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has criticised former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, and fo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-18T19:44:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-18T20:52:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758216318.251772.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tambuwal, Atiku betrayers \u2013 Wike\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-18T19:44:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-18T20:52:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike\"},\"wordCount\":156,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758216318.251772.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tambuwal\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tambuwal-atiku-betrayers-wike\",\"name\":\"Tambuwal, Atiku betrayers \u2013 Wike - 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